Photo 1: Mathers Museum of World Cultures/FlickrCrow Woman and Child, Location: Crow Reservation, MontanaPhoto 2: elycefeliz/FlickrPhoto 3: Raymund Flandez/FlickrA Jewish woman walks towards the gas chambers with three young children after going through the selection process on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Many European Americans have a hard time understanding the concept of "historical trauma."

After all, if something happened decades or even hundreds of years ago, it's over; "move on," right?

The Australian Human Rights Commission explains historical trauma as "the devastating trauma of genocide, loss of culture, and forcible removal from family and communities ... all unresolved and ... a sort of ‘psychological baggage’... continuously being acted out and recreated..."

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